Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a stunning development in a case that rattled business leaders while galvanizing their critics, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Memes aside, you guys know he actually did this right?
You know the, “he didn’t do it” thing is a meme. As in, “oh no, he was totally with me that day. We were feeding homeless people at my local church”
It’s a meme because we support what he did
But in reality, he’s guilty as fuck. He totally did it
he’s innocent until proven guilty
Sure, but also, he killed that man
These comments lead me to believe that a large portion of this site literally thinks that he’s literally an innocent man being framed by the government instead of everyone just pretending like he’s innocent because we support his actions
He *probably killed that man. You don’t have proof otherwise.
Fair. I mean, he is pleading guilty but still, fair point
My bigger point is that I’m concerned that people on this site are talking like they literally believe he’s an innocent man being framed by the government because they didn’t understand all the people on the internet who claimed he doesn’t fit the description of the person they saw do it or whatever are just people joking around because they support his actions
Despite what I might have said in the past, I did no literally witness the crime and no I did not literally see a 9 foot tall bald white man do it
Despite what you might have read people say on the internet, Luigi was not feeding homeless people at churches all across the nation that afternoon
He probably did it. We all know it. He’s pleading guilty. We just love him for what he did
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The whole point of the “Not Guilty” crowd is that Mangione’s killing of Brian Thompson was justice, not murder. He is not guilty of a crime, even if he did kill him.
So what if he did? He took out a mass murderer that the government enabled. At a certain point vigilante justice is the only justice we can hope to get. Whether he’s guilty of the crime or not, is the point of a trial, regardless. Personally I view him as “Not Guilty” even if he is the one that pulled the trigger.
Which I gotta be honest, still not convinced he did. The photos they released during the manhunt honestly look nothing like him, to the point that I was expecting a woman to have done it. The hotel shot especially has none of his eye brows and far more angular and effeminate face. Of course I’m aware that lighting can play a role in how one looks, so it’s not impossible for him to have done it. Which a court of “law” (hard to call it a legal system these days, IMO) is supposed to determine while presuming his innocence until conviction(which it hasn’t, btw).
So yeah, tl;dr. He might have allegedly done it, but to me he’s still “not guilty” regardless.
I think most of us support what he did
Which is why there’s the viral meme of sorts where we all pretend like he doesn’t fit the description of the person we saw do it or whatever… but that’s literally just people talking shit because they support him, not because they literally saw a 9 foot tall white woman shoot the CEO
Despite what I might have said in the past, no, Luigi was not literally with me that day feeding homeless people at a church.
I’m concerned at the number of comments that read like they don’t understand that we were memeing his innocence, not that he’s actually innocent
The nuance may be eluding me, but so what? Why is it concerning?
Seems like a propaganda win to me…
Because it’s ignorance
I’m worried a large portion of the users on this site are either too dumb to understand we’re joking or just that uninformed about ‘current’ events
It’s kind of scary to think a large group of lemmy users saw me say, “Luigi was with me feeding homeless people at my church” and they were like, “omg, he was?”. Like some shit straight out of idiocracy
No, he was not literally with me. It’s a fucking joke
I did not witness the shooting. Despite what I said on the internet I did not see a 9 foot amazonian woman shoot that man. It’s a bit upsetting to think I’m surrounded by users who believed me
https://prospect.org/2024/12/09/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/
Maybe if you read that you’d have some kind of understanding of the situation.
I support Luigi
But also, Luigi did it
I know that. I’ve always known that. He’s never really denied it. He just admitted it himself
We all joke around that he’s innocent and that he was with us at church or whatever… that the real shooter is a woman or whatever… but these are jokes. we don’t actually think he’s innocent, we’re just pretending like he’s innocent to show support
There seems to be a crazy amount of people who don’t understand that though and might actually think that Luigi literally was with me at church that day and that I did actually see a 9 foot Amazonian woman pull the trigger.
There seems to be a crazy amount of people who think Luigi is being framed because they apparently believed the comments they read on the internet not understanding that we’re all joking out of support
I agree and think it really was Luigi.
The reason people have convinced themselves otherwise is because that’s how strongly they want to believe in some kind of justice. So many people have lost loved ones where treatment was available, just not covered. Even more live in constant chronic pain that can only be managed by approved medication, like Luigi.
People were blowing themselves up at insurance company headquarters before this. Then they was a crackdown and things got quiet. And now Luigi continues the trend. If he somehow got acquitted it would mean there is some kind of justice out there.
It’s not Luigi himself but the idea of some kind of cosmic justice holding health insurance companies accountable, otherwise it means they’ll just keep killing people thru denied treatments and there’s nothing anybody can do. At least this time it was “one of their own” who got away with killing.
I agree, but somewhere along the line a bunch of people got confused and now literally think there’s a real conspiracy to frame Luigi who is literally an innocent man
He’s not innocent. He shot that man
We’re all just glad he shot that man and we wish he would have shot a few more
It’s not that I don’t get that people are joking. It’s that supporting a murderer is really fucking weird.
Is it not murder to knowingly turn down life saving medical procedures people paid for because doing so makes you rich?
CEOs should be fucking scared people will murder them in the street… then maybe they’ll make good decisions again
They’re gonna probably make some better decisions around their security and guess who ultimately pays for that?
Sure, but everyone here pretends he has been proven innocent. Like check out almost every comment on this thread.
and you’re assuming his guilt. both are wrong.
I don’t know shit.
And, O.J. taught us all that he can still get off, even if he did, because the law doesn’t define justice, people do.
What? Luigi literally just said he did it.
He told a judge that he followed Thompson to a UnitedHealth Group investor conference and shot him on the morning of Dec 4 2024. He also explained that leading up to the murder he emailed UnitedHealthcare while pretending to be an investor at a firm managing more than $50 million in assets so he could get information about the conference. He also acknowledged building a 3D-printed gun with a silencer and that this was the weapon he used for the shooting.
And I quote
“On the morning of Dec 4 2024 I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died”
This isn’t new information to anyone who actually knows about the case… we all know he did it, we’re all just pretending like he’s innocent because we support him
yet these comments read like people don’t understand that we’re joking when we say he’s innocent.
That’s concerning that you guys are so thick you literally don’t recognize jokes when you see them anymore.
There’s nothing to argue about it. He did it. He admitted it. He’s pleading guilty.
Anyone in the comments who literally thinks he’s innocent is a fucking moron
“Read this, or get the death penalty, and we’ll make sure you die before Trump leave office.”
“What do you want me to say?”
Better to sit in prison a few years, and then try to get the next administration to kick the conviction for any number of DoJ improprieties.
another one
He did it. He never even attempted to deny he did it. He literally sent emails to track where the CEO would be. There are zero other suspects.
He did it. We all know he did it. We just pretended like he was an innocent man being framed because we support what he did; you weren’t suppose to take us seriously
The words of a man threatened with death. Plenty of innocent people take a plea deal under similar threats every day.
You’re exactly the type of person I’m talking about
It was never a debate if he actually did it. We know he did it. We know why he did it. He’s admitting to doing it. He literally sent emails pretending to be an investor to find out when the CEO would be at the conference. We all know he did it, we all just pretend like he’s innocent because we support him. Only fools literally think he’s innocent
okay, NOW you can say he’s guilty.
There’s a whole lot of trolling in this 2 month old account, just sayin.
It’s not trolling if the internet is full of morons